Fujitsu in Plans for RIKEN AIP-FUJITSU Collaboration Center

Tokyo, March 10, 2017 (This document is a summary of a joint press release made by RIKEN and three companies, including Fujitsu Limited. Portions of that press release, announced on March 10, 2017, have been excerpted and are stated here.) Fujitsu today announced that together with RIKEN it would establish a coordination center within the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP). This Collaboration Center, scheduled to open April 1, will combine RIKEN AIP's knowledge of cutting-edge technology in the artificial intelligence (AI) field with Fujitsu's experience developing AI-related technologies based on its customer platforms. The aim is to create social innovation by methodically conducting research into everything from developing base technologies to their deployment in society, in order to respond to important social issues.

Background and Activities

Since its founding on April 14, 2016, RIKEN AIP has provided a research structure for developing innovative next-generation base AI technologies. As part of that effort, it has been examining collaboration with industry to accelerate practical implementation of the results of its R&D efforts. Now three companies, including Fujitsu, have each agreed to establish a collaboration center, after extensive discussions with RIKEN to institute concrete research projects and execution plans. In establishing the RIKEN AIP-FUJITSU Collaboration Center, Fujitsu will be a part of joint research conducted on the topic of creating "AI technology that predicts the unpredictable" to support better decision-making for people based on accurate future predictions, even in the face of environmental uncertainties. Multiple Fujitsu researchers and RIKEN AIP Project Investigators (PI; the heads of research projects) doing research related to this topic came together to conduct R&D on Human Centric AI that has the ability to predict possible future social changes, taking into consideration a variety of social and economic factors, and to create policies accurately reflecting human intentions in the face of any sort of changes, in order to resolve ever more complicated social and economic issues.